Do you ever get phone calls asking you if you want to extend the warranty on your Pontiac cars or any other car that you own? If so, you are not alone. You are also not alone if these calls are becoming more and more frustrating. But now you have a United States Senator on your side.
Earlier this week, Senator Charles Schumer held a news conference to express his frustrations with car warranty telemarketing calls. Like many other Americans, he has received many of these “robo calls” and he finally got tired of it. “I’ve had enough,” he said. “These are scam artists.” So he decided to do something about it.
So far, Senator Schumer has asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to conduct an investigation into who is conducting these calls and how they can be stopped.
The Better Business Bureau has received nearly 150,000 complaints about these calls and officials in 40 states are already investigating the source of the calls. The frustrating part is that the callers call landlines and cell phones and even though the recorded message gives you an option to be taken off the list, it does not seem to help because they continue to call.
If these people call trying to get you to extend the warranty on your Pontiac cars or any other car that you own, just hang up. It’s not worth your time to listen to the pitch or try to get taken off the list because neither one will work.
